Emergency repairer for broken umbrella-ribs.



PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906,

J. W. DB CASTRO. EMERGENCY REPAIRER FOR BROKEN UMBRELLA RIBS.

APPLICATION FILED D30- 4. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMERGENCY REPAIRER FOR BROKEN UMBRELLA-RIBS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed December 4, 1905. Serial No. 290,310.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J osnrn W. DE CASTRO, of Newark, in the county ofEssex, State of New Jersey, have invented a certain Improvement inEmergency Repairers for Broken Ribs of Umbrellas, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention consists in an improved mode of repairing broken ribs ofumbrellas in cases of emergency.

Figure 1 is a central sectional view of an umbrella-frame having myinvention applied thereto; and Fig. 2 is a perspectiveoview of one of mydevices detached, showing the same as made of coiled wire.

My emergency repairer of broken ribs D and stretchers C of umbrellasconsists of a tube F, made of metal or other suitable material, with ahook at one end and open at the other end, the hook to be passed underand around the wire in the niche A or under and around the wire in therunner B, from which the ribs D or the stretchers C are broken at theeye E, forming a hinge that holds the tube F loosely to the niche A orto the runner B, but securely.

The end of the rib D or the end of the stretcher C that is broken at theeye E is inserted into the open end of the tube F, in which it worksloosely, but in connection with the cover of the umbrella will hold therib D or the stretcher C in the positions they occupied before they werebroken from the niche A or from the runner C and enable the bearer ofthe umbrella to open or close, raise or lower it for use the same asbefore the ribs D or the stretchers C were broken.

The emergency repairing-tube F can be attached to any part of theumbrella to remain until the emergency necessitating its use arrives. Itcan then be adjusted in one or two minutes by the thumb and fingerswithout the use of tools.

I claim 1. A device of the character described, comprising a tubularbody portion with an unobstructed opening at one end, and at the otherend having a hook projecting from a point of the end edges of the wallsof the body portion and lying in a substantially diametric plane at theend of said tubular body and closing said end against the passage of anumbrella-rib.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a piece of wirecoiled to form a tubular body portion and having one end bent into ahook lying in front of the end opening of said tubular body portion andclosing the same against the passage of an umbrella-rib, the other endof the body portion presenting an unobstructed opening.

In testimony to my invention I here set my hand this 10th day of June,1905.

JOSEPH W. DE CASTRO.

l/Vitnesses:

RUDOLPH HELLER, JOIIN HQLLENBERG.

